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Artist in Focus -  Robert Francis Guitarist, Los Angeles

Born in Los Angeles in 1987, Robert Francis grew up surrounded by music. His father is a classical music producer and eccentric owner of one of the largest collections of sheet music in the U.S.

After Robert studied piano for several years, his mother encouraged her then seven-year-old son to learn guitar so he could play the traditional ranchera songs she grew up singing with her sisters. When Francis was nine, family friend Ry Cooder gifted him his first National Slide guitar.

By the time he reached eleventh grade, he decided school was not for him and left. He spent a little over a year living dangerously and upsetting all those close to him until he met a girl who would then change his life. “It was a really tumultuous romantic relationship that lasted on and off for a few years,” he says. “Then it just sort of fizzled out. I started writing songs the first time I figured out how to pinpoint that feeling of loss. I guess I was just waiting to make music until I had something to say. From then on, I realized I could write songs that really meant something to me.”
 

The result was One By One, which Francis recorded at a friend’s recording studio and released in August 2007 on Aeronaut Records. It didn’t sell much, but it earned positive reviews from critics who compared Francis to a young Townes Van Zandt. The attention led to a record deal with Atlantic Records, which is releasing Before Nightfall.  

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Robert Francis
Before Nightfall (Atlantic Records)
Release Date: October 20, 2009

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